From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [bug] read-passwd of CVS Emacs Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 10:31:16 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <20060524.123750.178780620.kazu@iij.ad.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1148574802 1742 80.91.229.2 (25 May 2006 16:33:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 16:33:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 25 18:33:20 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjIlp-0003BR-FH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 18:33:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjIlo-0000GD-Sj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 12:33:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FjIlB-0008Nv-Hx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 12:32:29 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FjIl9-0008M7-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 12:32:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FjIl9-0008Lq-Jc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 12:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FjIpq-0001iL-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 12:37:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FjIkt-00032U-TV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 25 May 2006 18:32:15 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 18:32:11 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 25 May 2006 18:32:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:55286 Archived-At: Richard Stallman wrote: > There is no indexing bug. The bug is that it modifies the string > that was passed in by the caller. > > This seems to fix it for me. But I see that you proposed > another change, putting various other properties on the prompt. > Is that still necessary, when this is done? I think it won't > be needed, because this prompt doesn't go in the minibuffer, > so you can't move point over it or insert other text after it. Sorry for posting not 1 but 2 irrelevant patches. I'm sure you're right, that the front-sticky, rear-nonsticky, and field properties are not needed since read-passwd displays the prompt in the echo area instead of the minibuffer. Thanks, -- Kevin